Linux - Recurring "Verify Integrity of Game Files" Crash

[Motives]

For the past few months, I've been getting a recurrent crash message instructing me to verify the integrity of my game files. Typically post-crash, Deadlock will perform a small update (presumably replacing whatever file was bad), and function perfectly fine afterwards- although occasionally I'll have to repeat this process once or twice. Today specifically it happened about 4 times in a row. This typically happens immediately after finding a match, or after the intro cut scene before the menu appears, but I've had it happen throughout the course of matches before as well. I haven't noticed any specific crash triggers when it happens in a match.

Here's the pop-up that appears.
System specs if it helps:
Linux Mint 22
Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Geforce RTX 4070
16gb DDR4 RAM

I haven't been able to find any useful crash logs and haven't been able to do too much troubleshooting as a result, but I have:
- Uninstalled and reinstalled the game with no luck.
- Attempting to verify integrity of game files prior to launching will still cause the crash on occasion.
- Checked my hard drive for bad sectors, there's no evidence that the drive is dying from what I can tell

 

[markivanov0138]

Just install Windows and no problem, what's your problem bruh

 

[Motives]

Just install Windows and no problem, what's your problem bruh

I wouldn't be shocked if it's a Linux thing. I swapped to Linux a few months ago and don't recall having the problem on Windows.

 

[f1delity666]

No idea, if hard drive/ssd is okay.

But do you have a spare hard drive somewhere to put Deadlock on?

 

[van17ino6]

I wouldn't be shocked if it's a Linux thing. I swapped to Linux a few months ago and don't recall having the problem on Windows.

Just to add my personal experience:

Windows 10 - Ryzen 9, RTX 4070, 32GB
>Started having bad net jitter and visual rubberbanding at late 2024. Only in Deadlock, I wasn't having the same issues with any other game.
>Tried everything, including changing ISP and even upgraded speed. Configs in Deadlock, cable and wifi, different house, almost everything. Nothing changed (same PC though).

Nobara Linux KDE - Ryzen 9, RTX 4070, 32GB
>I swapped to Linux the other day just to test and to my surprise I'm having +20fps average and my constant netjitter DISAPPEARED (or at least the game now predicts perfectly and has stopped rubberbanding)

Windows 10 - Ryzen 9, RTX 4070, 32GB
>Swapped back to Windows in the same clean NVMe hard drive, to test if it was because of the clean hard drive
>The net jitter is back and exactly the same as before and my fps keep dropping frequently, as well as the extreme rubberbanding every 3 minutes

So I again swapped back to Linux and I'm staying just to play Deadlock because finally it's playable again for me.
I think it's something with my hardware combination + some Deadlock config. But I don't even know at this point.

Good luck with the fix, maybe address it in a private forum
BTW did it start in a game update or something else you can think?

 

[Playeroth]

i read that you can ask someone to give the same pak to you so you swap with their non-broken one. It should fix

 

[Motives]

i read that you can ask someone to give the same pak to you so you swap with their non-broken one. It should fix

After this post, I did some digging and found /steam/root/logs/content_log.txt and could see which files are corrupt. It seems to be a different file (or files) every time. The last crash I had was for game\citadel\pak_01_083 and 092. Before that was the map street_test. In each case the logs say there was a "write gap". So unless I swap every .vpk file.
Interestingly, I dont seem to have ever had the same pak01_xxx file go bad on me (at least, not yet), but I have had the same map files go bad on me a few different times.

Good luck with the fix, maybe address it in a private forum
BTW did it start in a game update or something else you can think?

I want to say it started shortly after the christmas update? But that was also around the time I moved everything over to Linux in the first place, so I can't say if the correlation is between the update or the OS change.

No idea, if hard drive/ssd is okay.

But do you have a spare hard drive somewhere to put Deadlock on?

I do! Somehow this didn't occur to me lol, I'll give it a shot.